If "PATRIOTS ARE IN CONTROL" we'd probably be confused about whether they were in control or were not. Given the ART OF WAR and the fact that WE ARE AT WAR we'd have to consider the likelihood that the war we find ourselves is completely dissimilar with the conventional wars our fathers and grandfathers fought a few decades ago.
4GW: "Fourth-generation warfare is conflict characterized by a blurring of the lines between war and politics, combatants and civilians."
We are either combatants or casualties in this FOURTH GENERATION WARFARE depending upon our ability to see deeper withing the appearances of facts to find connections and patters that allow us to see the battles taking place all around us. That there are battles allows us to know that this 4GW wages on. But to the degree that PATRIOTS ARE IN CONTROL would depend upon our ability to SEE those battles and who is pulling the strings. When we understand the COMMS on both sides of these battles a whole new world of possibilities opens up to us. I believe that PATRIOTS ARE IN CONTROL to a much greater degree than we are being led to believe by the PATRIOTS ARE IN CONTROL. It makes sense to me that our PATRIOTS ARE IN CONTROL would engage their battles from a position of STRENGTH when to all outward appearances they seem WEAK.
I may be delusional, and most of you believe I am, but that's the way I see THE GAME being played all around us.